Feinan wrote:
Well, I'd mis-remembered the limits on Speed Drives as KKV cause I've just gone and re-read The Rules. I thought drive field interactions kept impacts between Speed Drives from being relativistic so I thought of a way round that for the Spatial Missiles mentioned in the Great Wide Open thread.
However, The Rules say nothing about that, only that:
Rule #5c): Speed drives slow down significantly in atmospheres, due to vehicle mass, size, engine power, atmospheric density and local gravity. This makes entering or exiting atmosphere with a speed drive a tricky process. The reduced speed is too low to make kinetic-energy weapon strikes (for sufficiently high values of “kinetic energy”) effective inside an atmosphere.
So KKVs it is then. *Scrbbles down note*
Bob wrote:
Yes. Muchly. But there are a few coming.
Edit after preview: See? There's your espionage. Having fun in that segment Rob?
Hum...
Quote:Don't forget kinetic missiles/drones. I'm not sure if it's become wide-spread knowledge that the Jason uses such, but I imagine at least a few people would know of it. Once Great Justice was started, he'd have passed the idea on to Noah, Buckaroo, and possible a few others, just in case they hadn't considered it. I know it seems pretty basic, but it's amazing what people will overlook sometimes.
Well, I'd mis-remembered the limits on Speed Drives as KKV cause I've just gone and re-read The Rules. I thought drive field interactions kept impacts between Speed Drives from being relativistic so I thought of a way round that for the Spatial Missiles mentioned in the Great Wide Open thread.
However, The Rules say nothing about that, only that:
Rule #5c): Speed drives slow down significantly in atmospheres, due to vehicle mass, size, engine power, atmospheric density and local gravity. This makes entering or exiting atmosphere with a speed drive a tricky process. The reduced speed is too low to make kinetic-energy weapon strikes (for sufficiently high values of “kinetic energy”) effective inside an atmosphere.
So KKVs it is then. *Scrbbles down note*
Bob wrote:
Quote:Mm. What are the Danelaw nations' reactions to the radical improvements in Fen weapons tech since OGJ? I can't imagine that the Paranoid States Of America are particularly happy about railguns and other goodies belonging only to the Fen... maybe we need an incident or two of espionage or attempted espionage in the history?
Yes. Muchly. But there are a few coming.
Edit after preview: See? There's your espionage. Having fun in that segment Rob?
Quote:Come to think of it, more than a couple nations might think backing the Boskonians might be a good way to counter the Fen...
Hum...